Thursday, 17 November 2016

Institution




In class we learnt about Mainstream vs Independent film.

Independent:
~ Makes you think
~ Makes you ask questions
~ Associated with critical success

Mainstream:
~ Makes you laugh
~ Makes you cry
~ Associated with commercial success

Audiences and Access
~ Mass audiences consume primarily 'mainstream' film because there isn't a lot of independent films around.
~ Entertaining, mainstream films make money 

 Independent VS mainstream film: An independent film makes you think and ask yourself questions, it is also associated with critical success. Whereas a mainstream makes you laugh/cry and is often associated with commercial success and is only made as an escapist entertainment

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Prelim Task planning

Cast
Leah- Luna
Sophie- Stacey
Ale- The Follower

Locations
Great Baddow High School
-Common Room Diner / Tables
-Drama Studio Rooms

Title
Don't Dream

Music

Script
LUNCH SCENE
Luna and Stacey walk into the common room casually chatting and walking to a table in the ‘cafĂ©’
Leah: So..how has your weekend been?
Sophie: It’s been good, got a lot of work to do for university though which is stressing me out and making me feel weird recently.
Leah: How strange, well I hope you feel better soon, maybe this lunch will help you clear your mind a bit.
Boy walk into shot casually.
Boy: Alright girls, no dramas but can I have your numbers.
Leah: sorry I don't give my number to random people.

Boy: how about you? (talking to Sophie)
Sophie: alright 07814 709745
Sophie and Leah chat for ages with music over the top and a time lapse, eating and drinking.
Sophie and Leah walk home separate ways.
Quick shot change from walking home to getting into bed.
Sophie receives a text saying “don’t dream for too long” then falls asleep and it goes into the dream..
DREAM SCENE
Leah and Sophie are followed by the follower.
Sophie wakes up after the dream scene.

Production Diary 1
For the first day of  filming we chose to do the last scene first, we decided this as we need to have it done an it involved makeup which would take time to do everyday so we wanted to get it done first so it was out of the way but done well, we needed the makeup to go along with are genre it was a very important shot. We did film this shot a couple of times but we did this as we need to make sure that the genre of horror was there and in order to do this we had to change the lighting and even add more blood onto me to make it noticeable to the camera, if we hadn't of done this it wouldn't of given off the right message and the audience wouldn't know it was a horror. We used a small room with a table and blanket to give the effect of a bedroom to make it more realistic. We used a phone torch for the light as that is all we had but it did give us the right look we wanted. We filmed the shot a couple of times to make sure we were in the right positions and that we got a good end result.
 

Production Diary 2
After we filmed the last scene we had a problem with the makeup we used, even though we didn't mean to make are character look like a clown many people could've seem him in that way and due to the clowns that have been in the news we were no longer allowed to use the makeup, for a bit we couldn't film as Ale who was apart of are team had been taken away to sort the makeup issue out not only was he gone but he had our camera so we had to wait for him so that we could carry on and of course this wasted time that we could've used filming. W
e had to change the way our creepy character looked so we just made him into a man who had a hood on to hide the face. After everything was sorted we went to film the next shot, we need help as we needed more characters in the scene, we got two people to help us out, one with filming and the other with acting. When we explained to the two people what we needed we went on and filmed the shot, once we were done we headed back to review what we had just done but when we did this we soon could see that you couldn't really hear us talking which was a major problem, if we couldn't hear it then we couldn't use it. So we had to leave it, we had learnt that we needed to have a location where there is hardly any noise so we can be heard. We quickly shot a message scene but when we watched it back Ale had issues in holding the camera and the quality wasn't very good so we left it as we knew it wouldn't take long to re-film another day.

Production Diary 3
As the footage we got from the last time we filmed wasn't at its best we needed to do them again to make sure they were as best as we could get them. Again we needed two people to help us film, we managed to get two people and we found somewhere that we could film were we could be heard. We had everything ready and began to film, once we were done we were really happy and went back to see what we got but when we got back we could see that something was wrong, when we watched the shots back we could see the problem, we hadn't been filming the right bits, even though we explained to the person how to press stop and start they didn't seem to get it right as when we said start the stopped the recording and when we said stop they started the recording, so we managed to record everything else apart from the bits we actually needed.

Production Diary 4
We faced a lot of problems when filming so we went on the dream scene, we used lots of shots for this, some with the tripod and some by hand. We had to use a tripod as the scene contained all three of us in the shot at once. Using the tripod and the free hand was good as it was something different and meant that the shots weren't all the same all the way though.
We managed to film these scene very well without any problems.


Production Diary 5
This was the last day of filming, we got everything filmed again but we saw another problem, we were wearing different clothes and therefore it could be confusing, but we had to film and we said that we would write about in our evaluation and what we have learnt from it. We watched back our final pieces of footage and we were happy with it seeing as we had the problems. Next we needed to edit.

Production Diary 6
Me and Sophie took it in turns to edit but I was away one day on a school trip so Sophie finished off the final edit of the film with all the transitions and music. 

Titles Task


Captain America: Civil War 
 0.00-0.03
In the first three seconds from the clip we are presented with who the film is directed by, this could possibly then let the audience know what type of style the film might be in or even what genre if the director is well known for a specific type of style when directing films. The title has been typed not only in all capitals to make it bold and powerful but even the font that has been used it very bold and strong looking, this could be a clue to show that the film might be about power and being bold and brave. The colours we are being shown are dark but lights are shinning in a certain way to make a pattern in the middle of the shot, it is in the pattern of a star which could represent America and the stars, although there's not a lot in this shot it is still powerful in the fact that it gives off lots of clues into what the film could be about. There are small and medium rocks that can be seen in this shot and this could represent that the film is about adventure or action.

                                                                       0.03-0.06
The next shot is three seconds long and it shows us who the script is by. Again it keeps the same font and keeps the names in bold. Also the lights are also in this shot, they are again been made so that the light creates a shadow on the rocks, this adds to the effect of the film.



 

 In this film opening the titles come up every 3 seconds and the  opening lasts for 1 minute and 56 seconds. The pictures down below are the titles.






































































Final Prelim Task and Evaluation



ADD STORY BOARD

Who did you work with and how did you manage the task between you?
In my group I had Sophie and Ale and we decided that we would share out the tasks equally so that it was fair but I would say that me and Sophie did more then Ale but this was due to Ale being on holiday which we couldn't do anything about but me and Sophie were okay with carrying on and finishing the work that needed doing. We all said that we were fine with acting and we had no problems in giving our ideas and opinions. We all acted, Sophie and Ale filmed and me and Sophie edited. We managed to do all the tasks even if they weren't done equally but in the end we were all happy with the end result.

How did you plan your sequence? What processes did you use?
When we first got into our groups we planned our sequence by making some ideas on a piece of paper. When we started getting ideas we all added to different bits and made sire that everyone was happy with it. Ale then made a storyboard to make sure that it would all be in the right order and would make sense. we used the processes like storyboards, shooting schedules and looking at the same genre of films which was horror to get some ideas.

What factors did you have to take into account when planning, shooting and editing?
We had to think about a lot of things before actually getting on with filming and editing, one was that we needed good locations, not just a good location but we needed somewhere that wasn't going to be busy and that we could always use in case we needed to film quickly. We did decide on a place in the end and it was a place that wasn't busy and was good for what we needed to film. As we only had the school to film in it was hard to pick the right place as of course it is mostly always busy everywhere, in order to film at the least busiest times we decided that we would film during lesson time when everyone is in class, this was to reduce the background noise. Also another factor that had to be dealt with was that I had a school trip on one of the editing days and Ale was on holiday which left Sophie on her own to edit for one day, the day before I did put all the videos into the rights place and made sure they were at the right time, this meant that Sophie could put the effects in and add the music. Sophie also added a voice over which was a nice touch to it, it also added more skill to it.



How successful was your sequence? Please identify what worked well and with hindsight what would you improve/do differently?

I think that our sequence was successful as when people reviewed it they said that it made sense and that we put a lot into three minutes which showed that we were committed. I think we did really well at facing each problem we got, we did seem to have a lot but we didn't let it stop us and we carried on doing are best and doing the shots again and again until we got it right. Next time I would want to make sure that I was wearing the same clothes in every shot and this might mean bringing in clothes to change into just to make sure that no one gets confused by it. Although we did have one good location there were some locations that could've been better, we could've swapped location earlier so that we didn't waste as much time filming things that weren't going to work. 


What did others say about your productions?
People said that it was a clever idea to use the dream because it didn't make it too confusing because it was a small time scale so that people didn't have to think too much about what happened in the last scene. Also people really understood that it was a dream due to the effect and acting.

What have you learnt from completing this task?I have learnt a lot from this task, I have learnt new skills and learnt from mistakes that we all as a group made. I've learnt more about editing and the different effects that can be used, how to think quick to resolve problems that we faced and that the work done should be split fairly between the group. I really enjoyed this task and I learnt so much from it, I will not fail to use the knowledge I have learnt from this task and use it in the future for different tasks.